Dirigible airship.



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DRIGIBLE ARSHIP. APrLcA'uoz FILED JUNE 1914.

Patented oct. 2t; 1914.

SHEETS SHEE'il E. TO'RK.

DIRIGIBLE AIRSHIP,

APPLXGATION II-LED JUNE 4.1914.

1,1 5,45*?, Pawnee@ ogn. 27, 1914.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

l I l l APPLICATIGH FILED JUN, 4. '1914.

mante@ @im 'aus rnx, or New Yoan, n.' Y.

DIRIGBLE AIRSHIP.

Y Specification of Letters Patent. Pgented 001;. 27, '1914' iigpiication mea .nine 4, 1914. sensi No. $42,934.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELis Tnn, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dirigible Airships,l

of .which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in dirigible air ships. An object of the present invention is to provide a dirigible air ship in which the gas 4bag is made in the usual shape, but is formed of thin metal, such as aluminum and lled with gas. y

A further object of the present invention is to provide az dirigible air ship in which the gas bag is rotatable and formed of thin nietalrlivided into a plurality of independent gasgacompartments so that the entire bag will not be incapacitated should damage result to fajsingle eoriipartnient. f

A further object of the invention is to provide a car of an air ship, built in accordance with this invention, with doors in the bottom thereof so that the device may he used in time of War for dropping bombs,-

and with novel means for regulating the descent of the ship.

lfVith the above general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is betterunderstood, the saine .of the air ship. Fig.v 2 is a cross vertical lview of th'e same. l Fig. 3 is a side' elevational view partly in section of a portion of tl-ic devvice illustrating the manner of connecting the gas bag sections. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of a portion of the car with the bag removed. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional View of the end gas'bag. Fig'. 6 is a detail sectional View of one of the compartment joints illustrating the manner in which the suspending cables pass tliereover. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a portion of the mechanism for operating the wings, and Fig. 8 is a sectional view of one of the wings attached t0 the side of the car.

Briefly described, the invention consists 1n employing a gas bag formed of thi-n metal, suc`h as aluminum and which bag is divided into a pluralitybf independent gas compartments so that if injury results to a single compartment the whole device will not be rendered inoperu tive. The present invention also employs a car suspended beneath the gas ba g,wl iich car has pivoted to each side thereot a wing operated by mechanism extending within the cai to decrease the velocity of descent should the device become injured in any manner, or in the usual descent of the same.

Referring ino-rein detail to the accompanying drawings, the reference numeral 10 designates the gas bag formed of a plurality of independent gas sections 11. This gas bag is preferably formed of thin metal such as alnminnm or other metal light in weight,y the rsections 11 being suitably joined together as by riveting, as clearly shown in Fig-G. The opposed outer edges of the adjacent sectie-usare 'bent to form recesses 12 having joui-nailed therein at suitably spaced intervals a plurality of sheaves 13. These sheaves 1?) are jouriialed in the recesses 12 formed between each of the adjacent sections as clearly shown in Fig. 3 and have passed 'thcreover cables 1-l for suspending the car vdesignated in lgeneral 15. The gas bag 10 tapers from its ccnter 'toward cach end as shown in Fig. 1 and isyrotatably mounted on the longitudinal shaft 16. the shaft 16 carrying' on each end thereof exteriorly of the bag 10 the sheave 17 which has a chain connection 18 with the car v15.

The car 15 consists of a boat-like structure provided with a plurality of helicopter propellers19 and an end driving propeller 20, such propellers being driven by the motors 21 through the gear connections 22, the end propeller Q0l having the chain'connection 'Q2' with the motor shaft 23 of one of the motors 21.. As-'shown in Figs. 1 and 4f the rudder 2l is-prefeiably located at the front end of the cai' and is pivoted thereto as at 25, the rudder having arope connecand normally assumes its position adjacent the car as shown in Iiig. 2. Means are provided to cause the wings to assume a horizontal position as shown by dotted lines in ifig. 2 and consists in journaling a rockshai't 33 exterioriy of the car and mountv ing on said shaft a plurality of wing engaging arms 31. Hand levers 36 are carried by tl e shaft 33, and extend into the car 15, throughthe openings 35 provided in the sides. When the levers 36 are operated, the arms 31 engage the wings 32, to cause the same to asume thev horizontal position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The suspending ropes 14 pass through eyes 37 carried by the upper edge of the car and ,continue downwardly as at 14: to be secured in any suitable manner as 'at 3S to the bottom of the car.

In operation, the compartments of the gas bag 10 are filled with enough gas to elevate the car 15 from the ground, after which the propeller-s 19 and 2O areoperated to cause the device to be both elevated and driven in a forward direction. The gas bag 10 by having the rope and sheave connection 13 and 14 with the car 15 may have freetrotary movement on the shaft 16 relative to the said car, and should one of the compartments 11 of the bag 10 become broken, punctured or otherwise injured, the bag 10 may be rotated to move the injured part to a point adjacent the car 15 so that the same may be repaired. It will be noted that by forming the gas bag of a plurality ot' seetions that the whole bag is not rendered inoperative should one of the sections become j broken or otherwise injured.'

rIhe device may be steered by the rudder 26 which is controlled by the steering shaft 28 as shown in Fig. d while the door openings 29 are provided for the purposes above stated.

Should it be desired to decrease the velocity of descent of the air ship, the levers 36 45 are moved to canse the arm 341 to move to horizontal position, the side wings 32 as shown in Fig. 2 offering resistance to the descending movement of the device.

While the drawings show the preferred embodiment of my invention, I do not Wish to confine myself to the exact details of construction shown, as various forms, modifications and arrangements of the parts as shown may be had without departing from .the spirit and scope of the invention as said Wings, comprising pivotallysupportedarms, a rock shaft, and a lever for turning said shaft, said lever extending within the car.

3. In a dirigible air ship, a gas tank formed of thin metal and divided into a plurality of independent gas compartments, formed with annular grooves at the joints of the sections, and means within said grooves for effecting the rotation of the tank.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELIS TRK.

I/Vitnesses I M. J. RYAN, ALBERT GYoRrrn. 

